River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves star in this haunting tale from Gus Van Sant, about two young street hustlers: Mike Waters, a sensitive narco­leptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott Favor, the wayward son of the mayor of Portland and the object of Mike’s desire. Navigating a volatile world of junkies, thieves, and johns, Mike takes Scott on a quest along the grungy streets and open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search
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Marcia Tambutti Allende's Beyond My Grandfather Allende has won "Cannes’ first L’Oeil d’Or, awarded to its best documentary," reports Variety's John Hopewell. This first feature "portrays her grandfather, Chilean president Salvador Allende, not as a political icon but in personal terms, as a family man, with his friends, on holiday." Stig Bjorkman’s Ingrid Bergman, in Her Own Words, screening in Cannes Classics, has earned a mention. The Hollywood Reporter's Deborah Young calls it "celebratory and revelatory, making extensive use of Ingrid Bergman’s own diaries, personal pictures, home movies, and family members." »
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"Although it was shot in Jordan," writes Ben Kenigsberg at RogerEbert.com, Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser's Dégradé "is a rare film to depict life in the Gaza Strip. What's more, the movie trains its lens on women's lives, in a part of the world that is often represented in the news through masculinized images of violence." Reviews are mixed. "What a fine actress like Hiam Abbass is doing here is a mystery, but not as great as how the film earned a slot in Cannes’ prestigious Critics Week," writes Deborah Young in the Hollywood Reporter. We have more and a clip. »
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